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Dr Yvon-Durocher explores the effects of environmental change on the structure of
ecological communities (which are groups of actually or potentially
interacting species living in the same place). He is mainly interested in
understanding how structure and variables interact to determine changes
at the ecosystem scale. He has developed a predictive 'tool box' to
forecast how these ecological communities may be disrupted in a world
increasingly dominated by humans.